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Agency seeks minor fix to ensure milk producers can request hearings when contracts are ended
Summary
Agency of Agriculture staff told a legislative committee section 5 of S.323 corrects a drafting error so producers (not purchasers) must request hearings that stay milk‑purchase contract terminations, preserving an administrative remedy rarely used but important to farmers.
Steve Collier of the Agency of Agriculture told the Senate committee that section 5 of S.323 simply corrects a drafting error in longstanding statute governing milk‑purchase contracts. “This is really very simple. It's just correcting a typo,” Collier said, explaining the current text mistakenly says a purchaser requests a hearing when, in practice, a producer would request review.
The statute gives…
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